“But now,” and the eyes became very bright and ‘present’, seeming to grow smaller and almost sharp, “what is going on? What are you doing in it all? I can see and hear (and smell and feel) a great deal from this, from this, from this a-lalla-lalla-rumba-kamanda-lind-or-burúmë. Excuse me: that is a part of my name for it; I do not know what the word is in the outside languages: you know, the thing we are on, where I stand and look out on fine mornings, and think about the Sun, and the grass beyond the wood, and the horses, and the clouds, and the unfolding of the world…”
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Treebeard, Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien
This is, in a nutshell, my great failing as a writer. Weirdly enough, like the Ents, I’m someone language is not natural to (autistic), who came by an understanding of words later than average. Wonder if there’s some kind of correlation there. :-P
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